Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some critics of the space program point out that the potential of such techniques is often exaggerated. Nonetheless, many scientists are convinced that the fresh technical ideas that helped send man to the moon will ultimately make his material life far better on earth. Perhaps the most exciting promise, they say, is not in the technical achievements themselves, but in the mastery and management of the multiple skills that have produced them. Teams of specialists had to harness their disparate talents in order to make so vast an enterprise as the Apollo program succeed. A similar cooperative effort, they contend...
There are probably two reasons behind this year's intensified Communist drive against the Laotians. One is related to Hanoi's overall South Viet Nam strategy: easing military activity in the South but applying fresh pressures elsewhere. A second objective may well be to strengthen the bargaining position of their Pathet Lao allies in eventual negotiations with Souvanna Phouma. Both the Pathet Lao and the Vientiane government have all along maintained that they want to return to a tripartite government. Such a reconciliation could come after the war in Viet Nam draws to a close. It is probably...
...nation that, in any case, will be at the center of his discussions: Viet Nam. The start of U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam has opened up a period of uncertainty and transition in Asian politics. Faced with a reduction of the U.S. presence, Asian leaders are taking a fresh look at their relationship with the U.S., with each other-and especially with Communist China. They are also reacting uncertainly to a suggestion by Russia's Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that Asia should consider a collective-security arrangement...
Wistfully I stared out the window at the stretch of grass and few bushes that bridged the space between buildings. Never ad I so longed for fresh air and freedom. Slowly drained of energy I feared more than anything that maybe I, too, would fall asleep, stretched out ignobly on the floor. From this kind of stupor my body was jerked to attention. From the middle of the room came a horrible bonechilling...
...other patients to the cafeteria. Like a child who has been cooped up in school all day I charged outside--much to the amusement of the hospital staff. Phoebe, who had been asleep only a moment before, ran to catch up, and both of us, celebrating sunshine and fresh air, jumped over a hedge...